Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1887-08-06
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

Barley is good horse feed.
Never have sink under window If
you can avoid it.
Raising poor crops is the heaviest tax
our farmers pay.
Baking powder should always be mixed
with the flour dry.
Flour should always be sifted just be
fore you wish to use it.
IF a person is threatened with fainting,
bathe the head with warm, not cold water
Set dish of water in the oven with
cake when baking and it will seldom
Scorch.
a teaspoonfuI of carbofic acid in quart
of pure soft water is a good wash for mos
quito bites.
Glaze the bottom crust of fruit pies
with the white of an egg, and they will
not be soggy.
When peeling an onion hold it with
fork and thus save your hands from the
disagreeable odor.
Raw onions chopped fine and mixed
with food twice a week is better than
dozen cures for chicken cholera.
To remove grease from coat tacollars and
the glossy look from the elbow and seams,
rub with cloth dipped in ammonia.
Sluggish horses are generally made so
by the way they are handled. A lazy
man is pretty sure to have lazy horses.
The more an acre will produce the
| larger the profit, and the better you culti-
.ate that acre the more it will produce.
To avoid having greasy soups, it is best
| to allow them to get entirely cold. then
the fat can be easily skinned from the
| top.
Celery, parsley, thyme, summer. savory.
sage, etc. should be dried and pulveriZed
and pnt'away in glass jars for use next
| winter.
| The market grower is liable to make
/ great mistake who overlooks the neighbor-
| ing home market, trusting to the large
towns only.
/ Lampblack mixed with strong vinegar
/ will mark sheep SO that it will remain
wear. and will not injure the wool as do
tar and paint
Dry salt applied every day and brushed
| into the roots will make the hair silky and
cause it to grow Do not continue but
wear or two at longest, as it is strong
tonic.
In beating eggs beat the yolk until you
can take up spoonful: whip whites to
stiff froth and stir them into cake with
the flour the last thing before putting cake
into tins.
The Juice of a red onion is a perfect an
tidote for the sting of bees, wasps, hornets,
. etc. The sting of the honey bee. which
, is always left in the wound. should first be
removed.
Butter may be rendered less trouble
some in summer 10y being covered with a
: huge flower pot large enough to enclose
. the plate and rest tray in which there is
, some cold water Leaving butter in wa
: ter spoils it.
, A stock raiser reports that he destroys
, lice on cattle by boiling potatoes until
, they are thoroughly cooked, then remcv-
) ing the potatoes. allowing the water to boil
g down to one-half the quantity to increase
the strength The water is then Il ed on
2 the animals as wash Two quarts of po-
0 tatoes boiled in three gallons of water are
t the proper proportions.
: To ascertain the probable yield OF a
t field of wheat measure carefully square
. ward. cut and thresh, and get the weight
:. in ounces. Multiply this by 4,s40, the
number ef square yards in an acre, and
: : divide the result by 900, the number OF
!, , ounces in a bushel of sixty pounds This
will give the number of bushels. BY Sc
J lectine three square yards in different
IS parts of the field and taking the average a
I very close estimate may be made.
- The Young son of Sussex county, n
= J.. farmer though that a good plan to keep
!. the cows tail from switching him while
: milking was to tie it to his leg. The
scheme worked we'll until the COW started
- on a voyage of discovery around the yard
= She was speedy animal, and the boy
bumped behind her over the rocks while
she kept up a a:40 gait. When her tai
came off. the boy stopped. bruised and un
conscious. The COW has less tail now ane
e the boy has more experience.